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World Youth Day

February 27, 2011 by Aaron Leave a Comment
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I have been following this event called World Youth Day for several years now. The Catholic church has been organizing this for more than 25 years.  The purpose of the World Youth Day is three-fold: putting trust in the young, gathering together and meeting the international world on a human level. "World Youth Day is not simply a gathering for the young people of the world, but a time to put trust in the world's youth." Below is a video that highlights last year's World Youth Day: In 2008, World Youth Day was held in Sydney and more than 400,000 people attended.  Last year, more than 70,000 youth gathered for the Pope's message in St. Peter's Square.  Now this sounds really good to me at first, but I want to take this opportunity to analyze this event, and I want to begin by asking some questions. First of all, what was accomplished?  In youth ministry, we have criticized the use of numbers and being too …
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Filed Under: Newsworthy Tagged With: global needs, global youth, holistic needs, prayer, videos

Potential to Bless or Burden a Nation

February 20, 2011 by Adam Leave a Comment
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With my wife literally half way around the world, I often times find myself thinking about where she is and what she is up to... In an attempt to become a little better informed about her current whereabouts, I stumbled upon this article about youth employment in Cambodia. It’s a great article and, in case business or statistics bore you,  I’ve highlighted a few points I considered worthwhile: …
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Filed Under: Global Needs Tagged With: education, global youth, Southeast Asia, unemployment

Youth Can Do It

February 15, 2011 by Aaron Leave a Comment
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At YouthHOPE, one of our core values is that we believe that youth are capable and ready to do ministry now.  It is our goal to involve them in the work that we do in their communities.  It's about doing "with" them instead of doing "for" them.  I read this article the other day What the Indian Youth thinks today, the World will do tomorrow. It was very interesting to hear from the perspective of an indian youth about how they felt that their generation could make a contribution to the world.  Here are some of the characteristics that Pratiksha Chauhan had to say about today's young people: …
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Filed Under: Global Needs Tagged With: global needs, global youth

In some cases it is like teargas

February 13, 2011 by Adam 1 Comment
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Throughout the history of the world, youth have played a pivotal role in standing up to ungodly oppressive governments. Today we stand with our young brothers and sisters in Malawi as they fight for truth and all things good. Here is the link, and just in case you are at work, on a school’s network that blocks sites, or the man in Malawi has gotten to the internet to take it down, here is the text. “The Local Courts Bill, to be introduced next week, reads: "Any person who violates the atmosphere in any place so as to make it noxious to the public, to the health of persons in general dwelling or carrying on business in the neighbourhood or passing along a public way, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour." The bill will also attempt to deal with citizens who hinder the burial of dead bodies as well as people who pretend to be fortune tellers. Many feel that there are better issues that the government needs to discuss. Local Topsi …
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Filed Under: Newsworthy Tagged With: Government, Malawi

Are Youth Changing the World?

February 11, 2011 by Kyle Leave a Comment
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Most of us watch the news of what’s happened in North Africa over the last few weeks and never take the time to ask how all this got started.  Sure we know people are upset and supposedly there are some evil dictators involved, but what about the fire-starters: who, or what, kicked off these revolutions? Many attribute the Egyptian protests to people uniting through social networking to rally together 91% of the country’s 9.4% unemployed: the under-30s.  Some might suggest it was the 26 year-old vegetable vendor who set himself ablaze, literally and figuratively igniting the Tunisian protests.  His beef was with the government: he was denied the right to sell vegetables in a country where the youth unemployment rate is estimated at 30 percent.  Having spent time ministering in England, I was reminded of last November when youth in the UK were busy protesting high costs of education.  Realizing their college degrees would …
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Filed Under: Global Needs Tagged With: global needs, unemployment

Grads more likely to become Phi Alpha Beta than a Campus Crusader

February 9, 2011 by Adam Leave a Comment
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I recently had the opportunity to hear Kara Powell, Director of the Fuller Youth Institute (FYI), speak on her latest research and upcoming book Sticky Faith. Often within youth ministry the college drop-out stat gets thrown around, and depending on who you ask, it says somewhere between 40 to 60 percent of youth group graduates drift away from the Church when they transition to college. Unfortunately, the numbers seem to hold up outside of the states as well. Kara’s research and book are focused on helping the church improve, she jokes that no one would be alright with a drivers-ed program that only prepared half of its students. Her suggestion, I thought, was worth repeating. Present a better gospel: the typical do’s and don’ts list that has become the gospel to far too many (ex. Do read your bible/Don’t drink alcohol), simply doesn’t transition to a faith that lasts past high school/secondary school.  She asked nearly …
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Filed Under: Newsworthy Tagged With: education, youth ministry

1.8 Billion and Counting!

February 7, 2011 by Aaron 1 Comment
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According to the United Nations, there are an estimated 1.8 billion adolescents and youth in the world today, accounting for nearly a third of the world’s population, with just below 90 percent living in developing countries, a proportion that will increase during the next 20 years.  I have to admit that it is really difficult for me to conceptualize big numbers like that and a lot of my friends have told me the same thing.  I was recently teaching a college course on Global Youth Ministry and we began to look up ways to visualize the number billion. Here is one way that uses time as the medium: A billion seconds ago it was 1959. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age. Here is an image of what 1 billion pennies stacked up would look like (each block is the size of a schools bus): So I guess what I am trying to say is that a billion is a huge …
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Filed Under: Global Needs, Newsworthy Tagged With: global youth, gospel, youth ministry

I hate(d) Youth Ministry

February 5, 2011 by Kyle 5 Comments
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I grew up in a small church.  It was a place where young people were shifted to some far corridor to participate in “Wee Worship” or “Junior Church” while the adults sat through “Big Church.”  I never missed Sunday School and had more than one decidedly un-cool youth minister.  I can attribute much of my early spiritual formation to one of those “t-shirt-tucked-into-jeans-with-no-belt” mentors.  His investment in me led to my pursuit of ministry as a vocation. Well, him and some Thursday night message at a summer youth conference. After enrolling myself in college to prepare for ministry, I was blessed to get the opportunity to study the Word in an in-depth kind of way. I was surprised to find no mention of “youth ministers” anywhere in the Scriptures. In fact, I soon discovered that there seemed to be only one group set apart to minister to young people: their parents. Think Deuteronomy 6: Hear, O Israel: The …
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Filed Under: General, Global Needs Tagged With: holistic needs, parents, youth ministry

Youth Leader Summit

February 2, 2011 by Ryan Leave a Comment
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The year started out strong here in Southeast Asia with 60 director level leaders from 33 different churches and organizations gathered for a one day summit on holistic youth work.  The leaders represented over 4,000 churches and a half dozen Bible Colleges and Seminaries.  Those in attendance were challenged by local leaders to think about what holistic youth work looks like in their context.  One leader in attendance said, "I will plan on reaching youth in the four areas physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional."  They celebrated what the church was doing right and asked what the church could be doing better.  The leaders through the job creation session decided the church had to do a better job creating opportunities for their youth and brainstormed what was possible. Many leaders were able to network and share their ideas with one another.  "In order for us to reach youth for Christ, networking is important because we can …
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Filed Under: Conferences Tagged With: Christ in Youth, leadership development, Southeast Asia

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